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Most explanations or critiques of Lacan for cultural or literary studies students offer readable summaries of early Lacan, covering the Mirror Stage, the Imaginary and the Symbolic, and the function of the Other within a description of Lacan's reworking of the classic concepts of Freud. Thus for example the Unconscious is reworked as "the discourse of the Other"; the Ego is re-conceptualised as a paranoiac structure; the Oedipus Complex becomes the entry into the Symbolic Order though the force of the paternal metaphor. Instead, Luke Thurston takes us into the complexities of late Lacan, where the earlier work -with which so many generations of students have struggled -is surpassed, even rejected. Thurston focuses on Lacan's seminar on Joyce -what he calls "the encounter between Joyce and Lacan" (10) -and by doing so characterises Lacan as the Joyce of psychoanalysis: a deconstructor of conceptual signifieds and hermeneutic master codes, including those of his own early work. Psychoanalysis becomes literature in the sense of a play of signifiers, a delight in punning, a joy(ce) of language. But where does that leave the psychoanalytic reading of the text or the person (the analysan

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Author

Robert Burden

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2007

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)